Rachel Stuart

Dr. Rachel Stuart is a criminologist who specialises in the research of marginalised communities. Her doctoral thesis was a study of webcam performers broadcasting adult content material– a study she undertook while simultaneously researching the impacts of policing on the health of sex workers with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has also designed and conducted a longitudinal study of street sex workers before and during the COVID pandemic for the Doctors of The World NGO. Most recently she has been employed as a consultant by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on a DHSC-funded research around the impacts of COVID on The Gypsy Roma and Traveller Communities. Drawing on her positionality as a member of the Traveller community to highlight the issues that Travellers have experienced during the COVID pandemic in the context of structural racism